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Making sure the stockholders interests come before those of the employees. The question must eventually be asked if economic expansion is really infinite.
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"content": "Making sure the stockholders interests come before those of the employees. The question must eventually be asked if economic expansion is really infinite.\n",
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The Catholic church's primary goal is, and always has been, protection of its estimated one trillion dollars in assets. Rather than use this massive wealth to feed the poor or compensate victims of its sexual labuse, Benedict approved Dolan's transfer of $57 million to a cemetery fund, where it could not be reached to satisfy claims. All the while, he lived in luxury in an array of palaces.Revered conservative? I think not.
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The income earner who makes less than $150,000 a year is fully subsidizing corporate CEO's who make millions a year and get millions in annual bonuses (and pay no corporate taxes). The Republican Party has always endorsed this robbery by robber barons. You wonder if during the Gilded Age most worker bees were aware of this disparity. Of course, the greed heads got too greedy and the economy melted down but who suffered. The worker bees suffered.The hospital administrators in New York just made a deal in two days that they had refused to make in two years of negotiating. Why do they always force workers into a work stoppage to concede the least improvement in wages and benefits? They do this because they are trained not to share the wealth. How much does the CEO of each of the hospitals make? Patient care suffers and management doesn't care. They roll out the rhetoric about how much they care, but they don't care. It's all about the dollars, baby. And then they are mystified by the Great Resignation. Watch the movie, Elysium, and wonder.
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"content": "The income earner who makes less than $150,000 a year is fully subsidizing corporate CEO's who make millions a year and get millions in annual bonuses (and pay no corporate taxes). The Republican Party has always endorsed this robbery by robber barons. You wonder if during the Gilded Age most worker bees were aware of this disparity. Of course, the greed heads got too greedy and the economy melted down but who suffered. The worker bees suffered.The hospital administrators in New York just made a deal in two days that they had refused to make in two years of negotiating. Why do they always force workers into a work stoppage to concede the least improvement in wages and benefits? They do this because they are trained not to share the wealth. How much does the CEO of each of the hospitals make? Patient care suffers and management doesn't care. They roll out the rhetoric about how much they care, but they don't care. It's all about the dollars, baby. And then they are mystified by the Great Resignation. Watch the movie, Elysium, and wonder.\n",
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Once again Nick Kristoff reminds us of the impunity with which men inflict violence on women and girls around the world whose lives are forever changed. Even as I read this column, today's news carries another story demonstrating our inability to value the safety of women. Today, it is reported that the LA Dodgers released Trevor Bauer from his contract with a $22.5M payment, the same person accused of multiple instances of violence against women. This follows the $230M contract given to DeShaun Watson earlier this season after dozens of accusations of harassment of women. What do these examples demonstrate about the value of women in our society?One positive step everyone can take is to support Women First International Fund. Women First International Fund, a NY-based foundation, gives grants to local women-led Kenyan organizations that work in the Kibera slum, and other similar neighborhoods, to provide the resources and skills training to enable women and girls to earn and grow their income. These grassroots organizations are essential to changing the culture around women's role in Kenyan society yet receive almost no funding, operating on shoestring budgets and dependent on volunteers. Women First seeks to strengthen these local organizations so they can be sustainable and represent the wants and needs of Kenyan women and girls.
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"content": "Once again Nick Kristoff reminds us of the impunity with which men inflict violence on women and girls around the world whose lives are forever changed. Even as I read this column, today's news carries another story demonstrating our inability to value the safety of women. Today, it is reported that the LA Dodgers released Trevor Bauer from his contract with a $22.5M payment, the same person accused of multiple instances of violence against women. This follows the $230M contract given to DeShaun Watson earlier this season after dozens of accusations of harassment of women. What do these examples demonstrate about the value of women in our society?One positive step everyone can take is to support Women First International Fund. Women First International Fund, a NY-based foundation, gives grants to local women-led Kenyan organizations that work in the Kibera slum, and other similar neighborhoods, to provide the resources and skills training to enable women and girls to earn and grow their income. These grassroots organizations are essential to changing the culture around women's role in Kenyan society yet receive almost no funding, operating on shoestring budgets and dependent on volunteers. Women First seeks to strengthen these local organizations so they can be sustainable and represent the wants and needs of Kenyan women and girls.\n",
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“Amid this dynamic environment, we delivered record results in fiscal year 2022: We reported $198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income. And the Microsoft Cloud surpassed $100 billion in annualized revenue for the first time.”- From Microsoft’s 2022 Annual Report Shareholder’s Letter
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"content": "“Amid this dynamic environment, we delivered record results in fiscal year 2022: We reported $198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income. And the Microsoft Cloud surpassed $100 billion in annualized revenue for the first time.”- From Microsoft’s 2022 Annual Report Shareholder’s Letter\n",
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“The milestone of hitting the country’s $31.4 trillion debt cap is the product of decades of tax cuts and increased government spending by both Republicans and Democrats.”Ah yes, of course, “both sides.” We wouldn’t want to point out the reality that deficits have consistently decreased under Dems, while the opposite is true of Republicans. It would be biased to mention that, right?
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"content": "“The milestone of hitting the country’s $31.4 trillion debt cap is the product of decades of tax cuts and increased government spending by both Republicans and Democrats.”Ah yes, of course, “both sides.” We wouldn’t want to point out the reality that deficits have consistently decreased under Dems, while the opposite is true of Republicans. It would be biased to mention that, right?\n",
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Capitalism is working fine in America. If someone has a better idea, they should put it to work and make money from it.What we are seeing is an increase in communist and socialist solutions to problems where the government and regulations expand, strangling competitive diversity.What we need is for more demographic groups that vote for Democrats to remove their self created glass ceilings. Instead of advocating that someone else does it, or offering to vote for someone who will use the government to do it, they need to see that they have the power to do it themselves.This artificially created paradigm of the bottom looking up is a self created glass ceiling. Women are less than 10% of the Fortune 500 CEOs, while Black people are one percent. We need the help.It's time for demographic groups that vote for Democrats to stop seeing themselves as powerless cheerleaders and instead as empowered individuals with billion-dollar ideas. As a result of systemic misandry, white men are being driven to do all of the most important work, with the rest of the people seeing themselves as little more than couch commentators.
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"content": "Capitalism is working fine in America. If someone has a better idea, they should put it to work and make money from it.What we are seeing is an increase in communist and socialist solutions to problems where the government and regulations expand, strangling competitive diversity.What we need is for more demographic groups that vote for Democrats to remove their self created glass ceilings. Instead of advocating that someone else does it, or offering to vote for someone who will use the government to do it, they need to see that they have the power to do it themselves.This artificially created paradigm of the bottom looking up is a self created glass ceiling. Women are less than 10% of the Fortune 500 CEOs, while Black people are one percent. We need the help.It's time for demographic groups that vote for Democrats to stop seeing themselves as powerless cheerleaders and instead as empowered individuals with billion-dollar ideas. As a result of systemic misandry, white men are being driven to do all of the most important work, with the rest of the people seeing themselves as little more than couch commentators.\n",
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Having been born in southern California in the mid 1950's, I must say that the Palm Springs house speaks to me. So Cal and I grew up together. At that time most buildings I came in contact with were newly built containing features in this house. Starting with the slab on grade concrete floors finished with terrazzo in the new schools I attended, and in the banks, grocery stores, and medical centers. The simple kitchen with wall ovens and sans "industrial" style ranges so popular now. The sliding glass, particularly the corner pair in the bedroom, opening to a backyard with lots of concrete surrounding a pool and a covered patio. And let us not forget the slightly sloped flat roof, the clerestory windows and the smooth exterior stucco. I guess what I'm saying is that for those of us of a certain age in southern California, these things are historical. I can't believe I have lived long enough that they are building 'em like this again. I happen to like many of these features for their simplicity and durability. I didn't see a starburst clock though!
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J asking a working class family to spend upwards of $40k, which often is a huge percentage of their annual income, or even $30k, on a car that (a) is not very useful for road trips; and (b) might well strand them in the middle of nowhere on a cold winter day is not going to fly. We have friends on the far opposite side of the Chicago metropolitan area who are a 55 mile drive, or 110 miles round trip. I wouldn't visit them on a cold day if all I had was a 150 mile range, because that's not enough margin for error. And I don't know where you are in Massachusetts, but Chicago gets colder than coastal New England, and EVs are not at all popular here, nor, I suspect, will they ever be unless battery technology in cold weather improves significantly, which probably would require a non-lithium technology.As for hydrogen, you say that it would require "built from scratch technology" to be feasible, and if by that you mean that there would need to be a major build-out of fueling stations, I absolutely agree, and I believe that's what needs to happen, because EV, at least with lithium, is not going to become a mass market product given its limitations, or at least that's my prediction. The only reason that hasn't become apparent yet is that too few people own EVs for their deficits to become apparent to the masses, and those who do have them are usually financially well off and (commendably) interested in addressing climate change, so they're willing to overlook the downsides.
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"content": "J asking a working class family to spend upwards of $40k, which often is a huge percentage of their annual income, or even $30k, on a car that (a) is not very useful for road trips; and (b) might well strand them in the middle of nowhere on a cold winter day is not going to fly. We have friends on the far opposite side of the Chicago metropolitan area who are a 55 mile drive, or 110 miles round trip. I wouldn't visit them on a cold day if all I had was a 150 mile range, because that's not enough margin for error. And I don't know where you are in Massachusetts, but Chicago gets colder than coastal New England, and EVs are not at all popular here, nor, I suspect, will they ever be unless battery technology in cold weather improves significantly, which probably would require a non-lithium technology.As for hydrogen, you say that it would require \"built from scratch technology\" to be feasible, and if by that you mean that there would need to be a major build-out of fueling stations, I absolutely agree, and I believe that's what needs to happen, because EV, at least with lithium, is not going to become a mass market product given its limitations, or at least that's my prediction. The only reason that hasn't become apparent yet is that too few people own EVs for their deficits to become apparent to the masses, and those who do have them are usually financially well off and (commendably) interested in addressing climate change, so they're willing to overlook the downsides.\n",
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DS Did it occur to you that people who can afford the risk of opening a restaurant often have money *to begin with*? As someone who's been involved in the industry for years, I can say with certainty that those cars, vacations, etc you cite are NOT from any windfall restaurant profits.
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"content": "DS Did it occur to you that people who can afford the risk of opening a restaurant often have money *to begin with*? As someone who's been involved in the industry for years, I can say with certainty that those cars, vacations, etc you cite are NOT from any windfall restaurant profits.\n",
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Had the misfortune of stopping at the newly renovated thruway rest stop at Indian Castle. It is a huge disappointment. There were only 6 stalls in the women's room and fewer in the men's. Barely enough space to even get to the stalls. Lines snaked into the common area. There is little room for the lines waiting for take out food as well. The limited number of tables are immediately as you come into the building, so you have to weave between diners to get to the rest rooms and convenience store beyond. Really really awful. I can't even imagine how long the wait will be when a tour bus or two pull up to use the facilities.So poorly conceived. The buildings being torn down had ample wide open spaces for tables and rows and rows of stalls in the rest rooms. It's the opposite of progress and improvement.
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"content": "Had the misfortune of stopping at the newly renovated thruway rest stop at Indian Castle. It is a huge disappointment. There were only 6 stalls in the women's room and fewer in the men's. Barely enough space to even get to the stalls. Lines snaked into the common area. There is little room for the lines waiting for take out food as well. The limited number of tables are immediately as you come into the building, so you have to weave between diners to get to the rest rooms and convenience store beyond. Really really awful. I can't even imagine how long the wait will be when a tour bus or two pull up to use the facilities.So poorly conceived. The buildings being torn down had ample wide open spaces for tables and rows and rows of stalls in the rest rooms. It's the opposite of progress and improvement.\n",
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Some people desire fine wine, ultra-expensive audio components, $70,000 pick-up trucks, or $200,0000 electric cars. I worked for years at the Four Season Restaurant (now closed) in NYC. It wasn't only the great, unforgettable food that attracted people, it was the art and architecture of the building, chairs, and even the wooden walls and undulating window treatments. first-class service, Picasso stage curtain, works of great art, museum-quality glasses and silverware, and on and on. It raised eating into an art form. Should being an aesthete or desiring to strive for the pinnacle of excellence in all endeavors be illegal or frowned upon? If we are going down that road, why don't we start by revamping our tax code, providing basis needs for humanity, outlawing billionaires, and undoing the great wealth divide before performing an all-out assault on fine dining? What is not your cup of tea is someone else's idea of an experience of a lifetime. A day at Disney world is just as expensive but a sure turnoff for many. Should an expensive trip to an amusement park be immoral in a world where millions die each year due to exposure, lack of food and needed medical service?
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"content": "Some people desire fine wine, ultra-expensive audio components, $70,000 pick-up trucks, or $200,0000 electric cars. I worked for years at the Four Season Restaurant (now closed) in NYC. It wasn't only the great, unforgettable food that attracted people, it was the art and architecture of the building, chairs, and even the wooden walls and undulating window treatments. first-class service, Picasso stage curtain, works of great art, museum-quality glasses and silverware, and on and on. It raised eating into an art form. Should being an aesthete or desiring to strive for the pinnacle of excellence in all endeavors be illegal or frowned upon? If we are going down that road, why don't we start by revamping our tax code, providing basis needs for humanity, outlawing billionaires, and undoing the great wealth divide before performing an all-out assault on fine dining? What is not your cup of tea is someone else's idea of an experience of a lifetime. A day at Disney world is just as expensive but a sure turnoff for many. Should an expensive trip to an amusement park be immoral in a world where millions die each year due to exposure, lack of food and needed medical service?\n",
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The editorial smacks of desperation, which I think is due to a perception that it’s no longer possible to pretend Ukraine has a real chance of “winning”. Coping happens, because a lot has been invested in hopes for a Russian loss and humiliation. But now it seems there is far less certainty about that outcome. The US has decided not to send the M1 Abrams tanks, so Germany won’t send its Leopards, meaning it’s no longer true, if it ever was, that the West will do “all that it can” to ensure Russian defeat. The Western alliance is fractured over that issue. But provision of additional tanks to Ukraine is being described as critical, both by the media and the Ukrainian general Zaluzhny in his famous interview with the Economist. The editorial doesn’t even mention the US-German dispute over tanks, as though the whole issue was about nothing. Maybe it is about nothing. Maybe the Germans will succumb to the pressure. But it’s less and less certain that the current course of action — keep sending weapons “as long as it takes” — is appropriate or fruitful. There is a glaring disparity between the US conception of possible outcomes — where under any conceivable circumstances Ukraine has to give up territory — and Zelensky’s insistent aiming at complete expulsion of Russia even from Crimea. What are the implications of a rift between the superpower paying for a country’s defense and the client leader of that country who stubbornly refuses to listen?
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"content": "The editorial smacks of desperation, which I think is due to a perception that it’s no longer possible to pretend Ukraine has a real chance of “winning”. Coping happens, because a lot has been invested in hopes for a Russian loss and humiliation. But now it seems there is far less certainty about that outcome. The US has decided not to send the M1 Abrams tanks, so Germany won’t send its Leopards, meaning it’s no longer true, if it ever was, that the West will do “all that it can” to ensure Russian defeat. The Western alliance is fractured over that issue. But provision of additional tanks to Ukraine is being described as critical, both by the media and the Ukrainian general Zaluzhny in his famous interview with the Economist. The editorial doesn’t even mention the US-German dispute over tanks, as though the whole issue was about nothing. Maybe it is about nothing. Maybe the Germans will succumb to the pressure. But it’s less and less certain that the current course of action — keep sending weapons “as long as it takes” — is appropriate or fruitful. There is a glaring disparity between the US conception of possible outcomes — where under any conceivable circumstances Ukraine has to give up territory — and Zelensky’s insistent aiming at complete expulsion of Russia even from Crimea. What are the implications of a rift between the superpower paying for a country’s defense and the client leader of that country who stubbornly refuses to listen?\n",
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It’s hard to wrap my head around $114 billion in revenue since the end of 2016 — for one single drug manufacturer. No wonder American medical costs are through the roof. It is high time for the people we elect to represent us start representing us and not the high priced lobbyists who are working for the pharmaceutical companies. Voters unite.
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Joe Talking about Russophobia is extremely naive. Russia is an aggressive country bound to rebuild its Soviet-time sphere of influence and openly challenging the current world order. Russia used its economic ties to Europe (especially Germany) to use them as a political leverage and blackmail the countries on thr receiving end of its oil and gas deals (that was evident this winter). Germany and France had their own reasons to maintain close ties with Moscow (cheap natural gas fuelling German export-oriented economy and French anti-American obsession with hopes of pushing the US out of Europe) to uphold their dominance in the EU. That has proved to be an incredibly short-sighted policy and these countries struggle to cope with the new situation when their hesitance to help a democratic and pro-European country fighting brutal and unjustified aggression makes them lose their credibility and moral leadership and diminishes their strategic importance. That is the price of delusional thinking about partnership with Russian regime.
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"content": "Joe Talking about Russophobia is extremely naive. Russia is an aggressive country bound to rebuild its Soviet-time sphere of influence and openly challenging the current world order. Russia used its economic ties to Europe (especially Germany) to use them as a political leverage and blackmail the countries on thr receiving end of its oil and gas deals (that was evident this winter). Germany and France had their own reasons to maintain close ties with Moscow (cheap natural gas fuelling German export-oriented economy and French anti-American obsession with hopes of pushing the US out of Europe) to uphold their dominance in the EU. That has proved to be an incredibly short-sighted policy and these countries struggle to cope with the new situation when their hesitance to help a democratic and pro-European country fighting brutal and unjustified aggression makes them lose their credibility and moral leadership and diminishes their strategic importance. That is the price of delusional thinking about partnership with Russian regime.\n",
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"How do you deal with people who believe, more or less, that the 2020 election was stolen by a vast conspiracy of pedophiles?"Start by electing Democrats.But not by blindly voting for them just because they aren't Republicans, a lazy habit some of us undoubtedly have fallen into. We DO NOT want a Democrat "Santos," or some other unethical variation.Democrats need a strong farm club system extending deep into the grass roots of every corner of America, from towns and cities, on up.People in the community should know the person they are asked to vote for, if not personally, by trustworthy reputation. No running people for Congress, Senate or President with no previous experience in elected office -- no Black Box Candidates.One way to reduce the potential for fringe candidates to get elected without a majority is ranked voting. To get an extremist elected under our current system, all a party needs is for a third-party candidate to syphon off votes from the opposition. It has happened many times.If we truly want to defuse the UXBs threatening to blow up our polity, we need to dismantle corporate and anonymous donations to candidates and political groups through fundamental election reform.The mendacious travesty calling itself "Citizens United" must go! Corporations' marketing already has united control of information pervading every corner of our lives, right down to our underwear.Corporations do not deserve the sacred right of free speech reserved to us humans.
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"content": "\"How do you deal with people who believe, more or less, that the 2020 election was stolen by a vast conspiracy of pedophiles?\"Start by electing Democrats.But not by blindly voting for them just because they aren't Republicans, a lazy habit some of us undoubtedly have fallen into. We DO NOT want a Democrat \"Santos,\" or some other unethical variation.Democrats need a strong farm club system extending deep into the grass roots of every corner of America, from towns and cities, on up.People in the community should know the person they are asked to vote for, if not personally, by trustworthy reputation. No running people for Congress, Senate or President with no previous experience in elected office -- no Black Box Candidates.One way to reduce the potential for fringe candidates to get elected without a majority is ranked voting. To get an extremist elected under our current system, all a party needs is for a third-party candidate to syphon off votes from the opposition. It has happened many times.If we truly want to defuse the UXBs threatening to blow up our polity, we need to dismantle corporate and anonymous donations to candidates and political groups through fundamental election reform.The mendacious travesty calling itself \"Citizens United\" must go! Corporations' marketing already has united control of information pervading every corner of our lives, right down to our underwear.Corporations do not deserve the sacred right of free speech reserved to us humans.\n",
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Ivermarkt I live in the Tenderloin. They open more shelters during this weather and I am not seeing many out there. The ones who are left are pretty bad or they have vicious dogs that are not allowed in shelters. Homeless Outreach circle the streets constantly. Many leave in the Winter for warmer climes. They used to do the same when I lived in Ventura and am sure Pasadena does as well
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I believe every issue raised by Gail and Bret requires compromise. We won't get anywhere on gun control until Republicans agree that some sort of compromise is in order but they won't do that because of the gun lobby (namely the NRA). And they are all afraid if they compromise, then Trump will label them as RINOs (almost as bad as being labeled "weak"). How many very wealthy people in this nation do not need Medicare benefits or Social Security payments? Why not assess Medicare and Social Security contributions on all earned income? Why cap contributions at $160,000? Compromise is needed here too. Virtually every elected official in state and the federal government dreads the word "compromise." And until they toughen up and declare to their voters that compromise is a virtue rather than weakness, we'll be reading this same column from Bret and Gail five years from now when things are even far worse.
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"content": "I believe every issue raised by Gail and Bret requires compromise. We won't get anywhere on gun control until Republicans agree that some sort of compromise is in order but they won't do that because of the gun lobby (namely the NRA). And they are all afraid if they compromise, then Trump will label them as RINOs (almost as bad as being labeled \"weak\"). How many very wealthy people in this nation do not need Medicare benefits or Social Security payments? Why not assess Medicare and Social Security contributions on all earned income? Why cap contributions at $160,000? Compromise is needed here too. Virtually every elected official in state and the federal government dreads the word \"compromise.\" And until they toughen up and declare to their voters that compromise is a virtue rather than weakness, we'll be reading this same column from Bret and Gail five years from now when things are even far worse.\n",
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Katie Well, at least you didn't have the gall to use the word "fair" in your first sentence. Do have any idea what percentage of federal income taxes presently come from the top 1% and 2%. I suggest you look it up. Do you have any idea the economic impact on all of us if capital gains treatment was eliminated? The reality is that there is not enough income in the top 1% to close the gap, and if you destroy them you pretty much destroy the economy...who wants to invest in and run businesses with those inherent risks and have the profits decimated by taxes? The conclusion, then, is that to cover the gap all income levels will have to be taxed more. Or spending must be cut. Europe is not the model this country wants.
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"content": "Katie Well, at least you didn't have the gall to use the word \"fair\" in your first sentence. Do have any idea what percentage of federal income taxes presently come from the top 1% and 2%. I suggest you look it up. Do you have any idea the economic impact on all of us if capital gains treatment was eliminated? The reality is that there is not enough income in the top 1% to close the gap, and if you destroy them you pretty much destroy the economy...who wants to invest in and run businesses with those inherent risks and have the profits decimated by taxes? The conclusion, then, is that to cover the gap all income levels will have to be taxed more. Or spending must be cut. Europe is not the model this country wants.\n",
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Being in the US illegally ultimately results in the the theft of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax payer funded services. Americans are taught that a felony takes place when the value of the theft exceeds $1,000. In the case of university admissions where many schools have a fixed number of seats per campus, illegal immigrants can attend and some schools like UT-Austin use racist practices in admissions, the result is Asian Black and White and citizens who lose a seat - a once in a lifetime opportunity. The effect of illegal immigration on society is effectively a string of felony’s. For all other crimes like robbing a gas station, harboring, abetting, being an accomplice or even in the wrong place at the wrong time equals jail time. Granny would do hard time in all these cases.The effect of lax immigration laws is a wholesale devaluation of all law and order. People just walk into stores, rob them in broad daylight and walk out because we all see that US law and justice is a toothless tiger.
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"content": "Being in the US illegally ultimately results in the the theft of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax payer funded services. Americans are taught that a felony takes place when the value of the theft exceeds $1,000. In the case of university admissions where many schools have a fixed number of seats per campus, illegal immigrants can attend and some schools like UT-Austin use racist practices in admissions, the result is Asian Black and White and citizens who lose a seat - a once in a lifetime opportunity. The effect of illegal immigration on society is effectively a string of felony’s. For all other crimes like robbing a gas station, harboring, abetting, being an accomplice or even in the wrong place at the wrong time equals jail time. Granny would do hard time in all these cases.The effect of lax immigration laws is a wholesale devaluation of all law and order. People just walk into stores, rob them in broad daylight and walk out because we all see that US law and justice is a toothless tiger.\n",
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Who is 45 paying off? Why didn't the tax guys get him earlier? 1.6 mil for his company is small change. Something smells fishy!!
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"content": "Who is 45 paying off? Why didn't the tax guys get him earlier? 1.6 mil for his company is small change. Something smells fishy!!\n",
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Let me just start with Biden's speech before all the questions.Biden achievements are astonishing:Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, half a Century, 11 million new jobs created, including 750,000 manufacturing jobsInflation at lowest level since Oct.2021More Americans have health insurance today than ever in the history of our country, fewer families are facing foreclosure today, supply of insulin with Medicare is $35 a month and so many other accomplishments it is hard to list it all.Infrastructure is no more a laughing joke.As the main targets of the QAnon party remained the same: cutting our mandatory SS and MedicareYes, President Biden downplayed the issues of the documents in his garage, but overall he repeated his constant cooperation with the DOJ investigation.Huge contrast against:"They all mine" orTrump resisted requests to return a stash of documents at Mar-a-Lago, saying 'it's not theirs, it's mine.'Anyway Robert Hur appointed special counsel seems like a perfect choice, that both sides can agree on & he was trump's cabinet choice.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents</a>
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"content": "Let me just start with Biden's speech before all the questions.Biden achievements are astonishing:Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, half a Century, 11 million new jobs created, including 750,000 manufacturing jobsInflation at lowest level since Oct.2021More Americans have health insurance today than ever in the history of our country, fewer families are facing foreclosure today, supply of insulin with Medicare is $35 a month and so many other accomplishments it is hard to list it all.Infrastructure is no more a laughing joke.As the main targets of the QAnon party remained the same: cutting our mandatory SS and MedicareYes, President Biden downplayed the issues of the documents in his garage, but overall he repeated his constant cooperation with the DOJ investigation.Huge contrast against:\"They all mine\" orTrump resisted requests to return a stash of documents at Mar-a-Lago, saying 'it's not theirs, it's mine.'Anyway Robert Hur appointed special counsel seems like a perfect choice, that both sides can agree on & he was trump's cabinet choice.<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents</a>\n",
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I like that Prof Krugman expanded the perspective on inflation to include Prof Blanchard’s insight on competing groups - workers, firms, taxpayers. We need this to shift the analysis of income distribution away from the usual frames that constrict discussion: the political tinged with leftover Marxists hangovers or the mantra of free market versus government policies. Income distribution between wages and profits by firm size should be standard data released with GDP. Then we can start a real discussion on profits. This opens the door to corporate limitarianism which is becoming our children’s issue. Profits are not bad. They are not always in conflict with labor. For small firms we should consider profits as wages. Small business owners work extremely hard and have to face greater survival risks. They need to have wealth buffers. Profits, however, can be too high for some large firms giving them excessive power over our economic world and squeezing out our economic freedom. Anytime we can discuss income distribution outside of its historic (leftist) frame, we can have a more important discussion about excessively largecorporations and economic freedom. The Chicago School should be leading the way on corporate limitarianism.
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"content": "I like that Prof Krugman expanded the perspective on inflation to include Prof Blanchard’s insight on competing groups - workers, firms, taxpayers. We need this to shift the analysis of income distribution away from the usual frames that constrict discussion: the political tinged with leftover Marxists hangovers or the mantra of free market versus government policies. Income distribution between wages and profits by firm size should be standard data released with GDP. Then we can start a real discussion on profits. This opens the door to corporate limitarianism which is becoming our children’s issue. Profits are not bad. They are not always in conflict with labor. For small firms we should consider profits as wages. Small business owners work extremely hard and have to face greater survival risks. They need to have wealth buffers. Profits, however, can be too high for some large firms giving them excessive power over our economic world and squeezing out our economic freedom. Anytime we can discuss income distribution outside of its historic (leftist) frame, we can have a more important discussion about excessively largecorporations and economic freedom. The Chicago School should be leading the way on corporate limitarianism.\n",
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Nyma S I signed an agreement with the Bengal cat breeder for our beautiful tabby Bengal; among the ingredients of that agreement we're that she would only and forever be an indoor cat. I was happy to agree, and signed the document, paying $700 for her (in 2001, Bengals were less expensive).No problem at all keeping her indoors while she was a kitten. Came her adolescence, however, and she wanted out...and she wanted out every night, as she made abundantly clear.She 'won' after months of my intransigence (seen from her perspective), and I let her out thencefoward. And into the laneway she might go, where she'd sometimes fight with one of two other Bengals; or, into the ravine across the street, where we knew coyote had been seen.She died last year, age of 21...just a few minor scars around her ears, the only change in her liquid honey good looks.
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"content": "Nyma S I signed an agreement with the Bengal cat breeder for our beautiful tabby Bengal; among the ingredients of that agreement we're that she would only and forever be an indoor cat. I was happy to agree, and signed the document, paying $700 for her (in 2001, Bengals were less expensive).No problem at all keeping her indoors while she was a kitten. Came her adolescence, however, and she wanted out...and she wanted out every night, as she made abundantly clear.She 'won' after months of my intransigence (seen from her perspective), and I let her out thencefoward. And into the laneway she might go, where she'd sometimes fight with one of two other Bengals; or, into the ravine across the street, where we knew coyote had been seen.She died last year, age of 21...just a few minor scars around her ears, the only change in her liquid honey good looks.\n",
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What exactly would this look like?Do you think it would be easier and cheaper to get mental health treatment for everyone who needs it than eliminating guns? Because I don’t see Republicans going for the massive increase in healthcare spending this would entail. Or are you saying that all the countries who have a way lower rate of this type of gun violence just have different people than we do? It’s not because they aren’t awash with guns?Actually, the rate of gun deaths is directly related to the number of guns - and our gun rate has more in common with Yemen than with any country we’d perhaps rather compare ourselves to. Finally, we don’t have mechanisms for what you’re suggesting. There was a story recently of a guy who went into a supermarket restroom and changed into body armor, carrying 4 handguns, a semi automatic rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun. The police arrested him, but he was released and eventually it seems any charges against him will have to be because he might have left the gun unattended in the restroom for a while. But it’s unclear if he actually disobeyed any laws - all the guns were legally acquired, and he never fired a shot, and Georgia is an open carry state. So basically he was inappropriately arrested in an example of police overreach, and that would be true until the first bullet was fired. How do you work with that?
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"content": "What exactly would this look like?Do you think it would be easier and cheaper to get mental health treatment for everyone who needs it than eliminating guns? Because I don’t see Republicans going for the massive increase in healthcare spending this would entail. Or are you saying that all the countries who have a way lower rate of this type of gun violence just have different people than we do? It’s not because they aren’t awash with guns?Actually, the rate of gun deaths is directly related to the number of guns - and our gun rate has more in common with Yemen than with any country we’d perhaps rather compare ourselves to. Finally, we don’t have mechanisms for what you’re suggesting. There was a story recently of a guy who went into a supermarket restroom and changed into body armor, carrying 4 handguns, a semi automatic rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun. The police arrested him, but he was released and eventually it seems any charges against him will have to be because he might have left the gun unattended in the restroom for a while. But it’s unclear if he actually disobeyed any laws - all the guns were legally acquired, and he never fired a shot, and Georgia is an open carry state. So basically he was inappropriately arrested in an example of police overreach, and that would be true until the first bullet was fired. How do you work with that?\n",
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TeriDk I live in a small rural seaside county with less than 9,000 people; the nearest town has less than 1,200. The town had a 50% commercial occupancy rate. Finally enough people said ENOUGH and stopped doing business with Walmart/Food Lion/Dollar General. Wasn’t easy and it took some shopping creativity. But a funny thing happened along the way. Suddenly a fantastic butcher shop opened, then several high quality merchandise stores, restaurants and recently a very nice Starbucks-like coffee/tea house. It still ain’t Martha’s Vineyard, but it’s way better and more to come.
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How so? FOX was all in when the FED left interest rates at zero for all of Trumps term. And now under Biden, the scream about inflation? Inflation is big business getting its hands on our money. It's how business taxes the public. And the FED'S raising interest rates imagines that you and I don't just pay those increases, that they impact only investors. It's all nonsense. Republicans love to pretend the FED isn't its toy, but we should know better. Those of us who lived through the FED actions of the 1970s and watched Reagan raise taxes to stop inflation (it wasn't the FED). We know what works and what doesn't. Raising taxes on corporate investment and earnings will reduce taxes quickly. But it won't happen because Republican lies work better than anything. The FED is lying.
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"content": "How so? FOX was all in when the FED left interest rates at zero for all of Trumps term. And now under Biden, the scream about inflation? Inflation is big business getting its hands on our money. It's how business taxes the public. And the FED'S raising interest rates imagines that you and I don't just pay those increases, that they impact only investors. It's all nonsense. Republicans love to pretend the FED isn't its toy, but we should know better. Those of us who lived through the FED actions of the 1970s and watched Reagan raise taxes to stop inflation (it wasn't the FED). We know what works and what doesn't. Raising taxes on corporate investment and earnings will reduce taxes quickly. But it won't happen because Republican lies work better than anything. The FED is lying.\n",
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It's clear from the comments in response to this article, and from survey after survey, that the American people want single payer, universal health care. Now. But our elected officials take our tax dollars and spend them, among other things, to make sure they get premium health care and then they fund their re-election campaigns with donations from health insurance corporations. Until we get serious about using the only leverage we have as citizens, which is our vote, and refuse to vote for anyone who does not support universal, single payer health care coverage -- not as an ideal in some distant future, but now -- we'll continue to suffer the consequences of a profit driven, predatory health insurance industry.
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"content": "It's clear from the comments in response to this article, and from survey after survey, that the American people want single payer, universal health care. Now. But our elected officials take our tax dollars and spend them, among other things, to make sure they get premium health care and then they fund their re-election campaigns with donations from health insurance corporations. Until we get serious about using the only leverage we have as citizens, which is our vote, and refuse to vote for anyone who does not support universal, single payer health care coverage -- not as an ideal in some distant future, but now -- we'll continue to suffer the consequences of a profit driven, predatory health insurance industry.\n",
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Talking about the age of fake.I don't know if anyone read this unbelievable story, but it's a fake that work:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</a>'How Charlie Javice Got JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for … What Exactly?A young founder promised to simplify the college financial aid process. It was a compelling pitch. Especially, as now seems likely, to those with little firsthand knowledge of financial aid.'CON woman adventure, I just wonder if there is a happy ending in this phantasmagorical story.Great movie material! Hollywood should get to work!
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"content": "Talking about the age of fake.I don't know if anyone read this unbelievable story, but it's a fake that work:<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html</a>'How Charlie Javice Got JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for … What Exactly?A young founder promised to simplify the college financial aid process. It was a compelling pitch. Especially, as now seems likely, to those with little firsthand knowledge of financial aid.'CON woman adventure, I just wonder if there is a happy ending in this phantasmagorical story.Great movie material! Hollywood should get to work!\n",
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After last week's lament for the poor couples struggling to get by on more than $400,000 a year, Bret suggests older workers just pick up less physically demanding jobs while they wait a few more years to get Social Security. Does any NYT columnist exude out-of-touch privilege any more than Bret "Let Them Eat Cake" Stephens?
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"content": "After last week's lament for the poor couples struggling to get by on more than $400,000 a year, Bret suggests older workers just pick up less physically demanding jobs while they wait a few more years to get Social Security. Does any NYT columnist exude out-of-touch privilege any more than Bret \"Let Them Eat Cake\" Stephens?\n",
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Cathykent Well, first, to be in the top 10%, you only have to have a yearly income of about $170k. Pretty sure that no one at the 30 % level feels particularly "rich." Probably because they aren't. In 2021, the top 1% earned almost $600,000, (only $250k to crack the top 5%). Depending on where they live, many of those below the top 1 or 5 % don't feel "rich" - and all of them - including the top 1% will have the sads if these bozos blow up the US/world economy. And these clowns are perfectly ready to tear it all down and watch it burn. Even the Kochs and Mercers, Bezos and Musk, need a functioning government. If they want to stay rich, and if they don't want the pitchforks coming for them.
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"content": "Cathykent Well, first, to be in the top 10%, you only have to have a yearly income of about $170k. Pretty sure that no one at the 30 % level feels particularly \"rich.\" Probably because they aren't. In 2021, the top 1% earned almost $600,000, (only $250k to crack the top 5%). Depending on where they live, many of those below the top 1 or 5 % don't feel \"rich\" - and all of them - including the top 1% will have the sads if these bozos blow up the US/world economy. And these clowns are perfectly ready to tear it all down and watch it burn. Even the Kochs and Mercers, Bezos and Musk, need a functioning government. If they want to stay rich, and if they don't want the pitchforks coming for them.\n",
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I for one hope that the Jan 24 hearings report is made public. Among other reasons, it's important that the public have the opportunity to see the evidence uncovered by the Grand Jury without the cacophony of right wing media, emboldened by Elon Musk's decision to essentially allow those blocked for disinformation back on to Twitter, his gutting of the content moderation staffers.Based on public statements and actions, to my mind there are open and shut convictions coming for many people, the former president included. My "feel" doesn't matter for that though, and I'm looking forward to the next steps by District Attorney Willis. Whether or not convictions result, our democracy needs a full accounting of election tampering in George and across the country. Keep an eye out for A.G. Nessel's just opened investigation into the fake electors from Michigan next.
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"content": "I for one hope that the Jan 24 hearings report is made public. Among other reasons, it's important that the public have the opportunity to see the evidence uncovered by the Grand Jury without the cacophony of right wing media, emboldened by Elon Musk's decision to essentially allow those blocked for disinformation back on to Twitter, his gutting of the content moderation staffers.Based on public statements and actions, to my mind there are open and shut convictions coming for many people, the former president included. My \"feel\" doesn't matter for that though, and I'm looking forward to the next steps by District Attorney Willis. Whether or not convictions result, our democracy needs a full accounting of election tampering in George and across the country. Keep an eye out for A.G. Nessel's just opened investigation into the fake electors from Michigan next.\n",
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LibertyLover Typo: We spend $4 trillion dollars a year on health care.
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"content": "LibertyLover Typo: We spend $4 trillion dollars a year on health care.\n",
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The entire for profit medical industry needs to be nationalized down to the last syringe. We need free universal health care for all. The capitalist medical system is killing patients, drowning doctors and nurses, and it hardly innovating anything. It is an inefficient and inhuman obstacle to medical care. They can't even be bothered to invest in new antibiotics so don't talk about its alleged "creativity."
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"content": "The entire for profit medical industry needs to be nationalized down to the last syringe. We need free universal health care for all. The capitalist medical system is killing patients, drowning doctors and nurses, and it hardly innovating anything. It is an inefficient and inhuman obstacle to medical care. They can't even be bothered to invest in new antibiotics so don't talk about its alleged \"creativity.\"\n",
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"Mr. Pichai declared a 'code red'."It's easy to forget that before Google had $0.01 in profits, it did have 25m in the bank just a few months after incorporating -- and this from one of the storied VC firms in the valley.In short, there simply is no threat at all here for Google. With literally billions in the bank now, if chatbots or any other technology threatens its business, Google can simply buy up or create a similar solution.The "code red" here is not chatGPT. No, the "code red" is Google itself -- a dangerous firm which will challenge the core freedoms upon which America was built.
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"content": "\"Mr. Pichai declared a 'code red'.\"It's easy to forget that before Google had $0.01 in profits, it did have 25m in the bank just a few months after incorporating -- and this from one of the storied VC firms in the valley.In short, there simply is no threat at all here for Google. With literally billions in the bank now, if chatbots or any other technology threatens its business, Google can simply buy up or create a similar solution.The \"code red\" here is not chatGPT. No, the \"code red\" is Google itself -- a dangerous firm which will challenge the core freedoms upon which America was built.\n",
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Can we make the penalty a multiple of the amount cheated? Let’s make it x5 when it’s under $1m, x10 when it’s between $1m and $5m, and then add +1 to the multiplier for every million thereafter. If you take a guilty plea, you get deduction of 2 in your multiplier.It’s a criminal penalty! I think tax fraud should always be punishable by prison time, frankly.
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"content": "Can we make the penalty a multiple of the amount cheated? Let’s make it x5 when it’s under $1m, x10 when it’s between $1m and $5m, and then add +1 to the multiplier for every million thereafter. If you take a guilty plea, you get deduction of 2 in your multiplier.It’s a criminal penalty! I think tax fraud should always be punishable by prison time, frankly.\n",
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Florida Man V "There are emails detailing how Hunter got 10's of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine."Prove it.
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Fully fund the necessary staff at the IRS to make sure people follow the law. Excuse innocent mistakes, collect with interest those gaming the system.Fix the incredibly complex deductions and gifts to those who are connected with congress people.A 7th grader should be able to fill out most forms, short of Microsoft's.Finally, a progressive tax (won't see it, too many big contributors to too many crooked congress people) where those making oodles of money begin to pay oodles of taxes. Keep a pretty hefty amount, but don't tell me you made millions and paid $300 / year in taxes.
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"content": "Fully fund the necessary staff at the IRS to make sure people follow the law. Excuse innocent mistakes, collect with interest those gaming the system.Fix the incredibly complex deductions and gifts to those who are connected with congress people.A 7th grader should be able to fill out most forms, short of Microsoft's.Finally, a progressive tax (won't see it, too many big contributors to too many crooked congress people) where those making oodles of money begin to pay oodles of taxes. Keep a pretty hefty amount, but don't tell me you made millions and paid $300 / year in taxes.\n",
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Djokovic is the Australian Open winner but Nadal, Borg, Federer, Laver, Sampras are champions on the court and off.
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"content": "Djokovic is the Australian Open winner but Nadal, Borg, Federer, Laver, Sampras are champions on the court and off.\n",
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Steve LaPorte Engineering (and for that matter most of STEM) is one of the majors where it makes sense purely from a financial perspective to go to college, even if it means taking out massive six figure student loans. It's a no brainer because of the financial payoffs of being an engineer. Many software engineers for example make 200k+ USD straight out of college.Low state funding for engineering schools is not a reason why there aren't enough engineers.The issue is almost purely because there aren't enough people (not just in the US, but in the world) with enough intelligence, the right mindset, and who enjoy engineering.
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While I appreciate this reporting and the larger issue, this episode completely misses the systemic causes behind non-profit hospital systems operating in this manner. Where is the investigation on how insurers both private and public, as well as congress make decisions about how healthcare systems are paid? The 340B discussion is a clear example of how programs are designed without thought or insight from the front line. Non-profit hospitals are the healthcare delivery system of our nation. They are the frontlines. Although they have the power to lobby congress and negotiate with payers, they do not make actually have final control over how they get paid for services from those groups. There are certainly real injustices occurring in non-profit healthcare. There are real negative patient outcomes because of this. There are definitely cases of fraud and abuse. But to put the entire blame on the care delivery system that provides the majority of frontline care and not on the real decision makers behind our healthcare system seems like a major miss and error in reporting. Finally, "margin = mission" is critical in the non-profit space. Those non-profit health systems that survived the pandemic without laying off healthcare workers and investing new new ways of providing necessary care (e.g. telehealth, PPE, ventilators) were only able to do that because of the margin they had saved.As a listener, this did not feel like reporting. This felt like an opinion piece.
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"content": "While I appreciate this reporting and the larger issue, this episode completely misses the systemic causes behind non-profit hospital systems operating in this manner. Where is the investigation on how insurers both private and public, as well as congress make decisions about how healthcare systems are paid? The 340B discussion is a clear example of how programs are designed without thought or insight from the front line. Non-profit hospitals are the healthcare delivery system of our nation. They are the frontlines. Although they have the power to lobby congress and negotiate with payers, they do not make actually have final control over how they get paid for services from those groups. There are certainly real injustices occurring in non-profit healthcare. There are real negative patient outcomes because of this. There are definitely cases of fraud and abuse. But to put the entire blame on the care delivery system that provides the majority of frontline care and not on the real decision makers behind our healthcare system seems like a major miss and error in reporting. Finally, \"margin = mission\" is critical in the non-profit space. Those non-profit health systems that survived the pandemic without laying off healthcare workers and investing new new ways of providing necessary care (e.g. telehealth, PPE, ventilators) were only able to do that because of the margin they had saved.As a listener, this did not feel like reporting. This felt like an opinion piece.\n",
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Well, it seems the mystery of where the $700k he lent his campaign came from is no longer any mystery.
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"content": "Well, it seems the mystery of where the $700k he lent his campaign came from is no longer any mystery.\n",
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Ah… the lure of the open road. Magic. Romance. Heartburn.We travel to New England a few times a year and prefer the less traveled Jersey Turnpike-GSP-New York Thruway-I-84 combination route to the often nerve wracking GWB- Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’-I-95 experience, with its 24-7 grinding halts, and usual bumper to bumper madness all the way from Newark in the south to Co-op City in the north.In our I-95 days en route to Maine or Mystic we would leave home pre-dawn and wait to have ‘Breakfast in Connecticut’, exiting the highway for the Post Road Diner or stopping at the Silver Star, both pretty near Fairfield and Norwalk before venturing farther afield. I cannot ever remember photographing my eggs, however.These days we generally pack a lunch at home and stop on the Thruway rest stops if we are headed due north for Hudson Valley. Once or twice I purchased fries from the golden arches to go with my home made ham-and-swiss on a chewy roll and coffee from my thermos. When headed to Maine we stop along 84 at the Red Line, a gigantic but excellent diner in the old school mode.The fact that any hypothetical fries will now have to be from an overpriced Shake Shack on the NYT may preclude them from my unphotographed lunch ‘experience’ altogether.I would prefer to have any ‘fancy’ meals at our destination, rather than at a truck stop. But that’s just me.
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"content": "Ah… the lure of the open road. Magic. Romance. Heartburn.We travel to New England a few times a year and prefer the less traveled Jersey Turnpike-GSP-New York Thruway-I-84 combination route to the often nerve wracking GWB- Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’-I-95 experience, with its 24-7 grinding halts, and usual bumper to bumper madness all the way from Newark in the south to Co-op City in the north.In our I-95 days en route to Maine or Mystic we would leave home pre-dawn and wait to have ‘Breakfast in Connecticut’, exiting the highway for the Post Road Diner or stopping at the Silver Star, both pretty near Fairfield and Norwalk before venturing farther afield. I cannot ever remember photographing my eggs, however.These days we generally pack a lunch at home and stop on the Thruway rest stops if we are headed due north for Hudson Valley. Once or twice I purchased fries from the golden arches to go with my home made ham-and-swiss on a chewy roll and coffee from my thermos. When headed to Maine we stop along 84 at the Red Line, a gigantic but excellent diner in the old school mode.The fact that any hypothetical fries will now have to be from an overpriced Shake Shack on the NYT may preclude them from my unphotographed lunch ‘experience’ altogether.I would prefer to have any ‘fancy’ meals at our destination, rather than at a truck stop. But that’s just me.\n",
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Tara Galles , due respect. I owned a small hair salon as an investment for 10 years. I tried as hard as I could to keep staff and prevent them from stealing customers my marketing efforts brought to the salon. That said, my business was a pinprick. Indiana is NOT an innovative state; mine is. Why? No enforced no competes.
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"content": "Tara Galles , due respect. I owned a small hair salon as an investment for 10 years. I tried as hard as I could to keep staff and prevent them from stealing customers my marketing efforts brought to the salon. That said, my business was a pinprick. Indiana is NOT an innovative state; mine is. Why? No enforced no competes.\n",
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From Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:"To achieve these savings without more revenue, we estimate all spending in 2032 would need to be cut by 26 percent; this figure rises to 33 percent if defense and veterans spending is exempted from the cuts. For a sense of magnitude, applying this cut across the board would mean reducing annual Social Security benefits for a typical new retiree by $10,000 to $13,000 in 2032. It would also mean laying off 1.1 to 1.4 million federal employees (more than two-thirds of the civilian workforce if the military were exempted) and removing 20 to 25 million people from Medicaid eligibility."So, basically, the cuts the House wants to make achieve a savings, let alone a balanced budget as exemplified above, aren't going to happen.
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"content": "From Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:\"To achieve these savings without more revenue, we estimate all spending in 2032 would need to be cut by 26 percent; this figure rises to 33 percent if defense and veterans spending is exempted from the cuts. For a sense of magnitude, applying this cut across the board would mean reducing annual Social Security benefits for a typical new retiree by $10,000 to $13,000 in 2032. It would also mean laying off 1.1 to 1.4 million federal employees (more than two-thirds of the civilian workforce if the military were exempted) and removing 20 to 25 million people from Medicaid eligibility.\"So, basically, the cuts the House wants to make achieve a savings, let alone a balanced budget as exemplified above, aren't going to happen.\n",
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Bomb the cartels. 100k poisoned to death last year. If Al Qaeda killed 5k we would spend trillions going to war. But on this we do nothing.
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"content": "Bomb the cartels. 100k poisoned to death last year. If Al Qaeda killed 5k we would spend trillions going to war. But on this we do nothing.\n",
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Biden wants to lecture Congress on how denying him an open checkbook will destroy the US economy. This is a joke, right? His programs have led to 10% inflation if one accepts the highly skewed government figure. For those of us who buy groceries, prices are up 20-30% as are prices at nearly every home center, restaurant, clothing store, etc.
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"content": "Biden wants to lecture Congress on how denying him an open checkbook will destroy the US economy. This is a joke, right? His programs have led to 10% inflation if one accepts the highly skewed government figure. For those of us who buy groceries, prices are up 20-30% as are prices at nearly every home center, restaurant, clothing store, etc.\n",
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I think a part of the problem is that college is just incredibly expensive now compared to 40 years ago. When students are spending over $100,000 and going deeply into dept to attend college it becomes an investment and the stakes feel too high to learn just to learn
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"content": "I think a part of the problem is that college is just incredibly expensive now compared to 40 years ago. When students are spending over $100,000 and going deeply into dept to attend college it becomes an investment and the stakes feel too high to learn just to learn\n",
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So this is the official Biden defense position. Tawdry but not illegal. Somehow the name Tony Bobulinski is not mentioned. He is a former Hunter business associate who has stated that Hunter deal money was being set aside for Joe Biden. From other stories I understand Hunter is setting up an attack team to destroy the credibility of all such witnesses. What are the terms of the repayment of the $2,000,000 “ loan” to ease his tax pressures? If it is a gift he has new tax issues. I appreciate many many politician’s family members grift off their connections. If this is acceptable it is an abomination.
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"content": "So this is the official Biden defense position. Tawdry but not illegal. Somehow the name Tony Bobulinski is not mentioned. He is a former Hunter business associate who has stated that Hunter deal money was being set aside for Joe Biden. From other stories I understand Hunter is setting up an attack team to destroy the credibility of all such witnesses. What are the terms of the repayment of the $2,000,000 “ loan” to ease his tax pressures? If it is a gift he has new tax issues. I appreciate many many politician’s family members grift off their connections. If this is acceptable it is an abomination.\n",
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The USA spends over 800 billon on defense. Who cares about the squalor living conditions of americas most needy. More bombs will certainly do the trick.
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"content": "The USA spends over 800 billon on defense. Who cares about the squalor living conditions of americas most needy. More bombs will certainly do the trick.\n",
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How will this county of 332 million people survive if its representative government is ruled by 18 extremely conservative persons? How will we deal with the healthcare crisis, climate change, and the host of other extremely important issues facing this nation?Will the United States default on its debt this year? Will property owners in Florida and other southern coastal areas be able address all of the long-term insurance and rebuilding costs from natural disasters? Will international bond investors be willing to fund our nation's deficits? Will the citizens of Arizona, Nevada, and California have sufficient access to water?18 fools stand in the way of progress towards ensuring the wellbeing of our nation. And, 417 of their peers, Republican and Democrat, can't seem to find a way to stop them.
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"content": "How will this county of 332 million people survive if its representative government is ruled by 18 extremely conservative persons? How will we deal with the healthcare crisis, climate change, and the host of other extremely important issues facing this nation?Will the United States default on its debt this year? Will property owners in Florida and other southern coastal areas be able address all of the long-term insurance and rebuilding costs from natural disasters? Will international bond investors be willing to fund our nation's deficits? Will the citizens of Arizona, Nevada, and California have sufficient access to water?18 fools stand in the way of progress towards ensuring the wellbeing of our nation. And, 417 of their peers, Republican and Democrat, can't seem to find a way to stop them.\n",
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Very interesting factoid I had not heard before. The story from the Big 3 has always been that they could not get the chips, which of course is no lie - chipmakers typically don’t produce and ship without orders, and orders don’t come without a contract in place. And yet, we have those satellite photos of thousands of cars and trucks sitting in storage lots, ostensibly “waiting for chips”; meanwhile price levels at the factories were jumping every few weeks instead of once or twice a year, by a thousands instead of hundreds. A Ford Transit saw a $6000 hike in less than a year, about the same time as it took from order to delivery. Dealers facing very low supply were left to “manage expectations” of their new car customers, essentially begging forgiveness for higher prices and huge delays, while matching profit per car to loss of volume to keep the light on.
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"content": "Very interesting factoid I had not heard before. The story from the Big 3 has always been that they could not get the chips, which of course is no lie - chipmakers typically don’t produce and ship without orders, and orders don’t come without a contract in place. And yet, we have those satellite photos of thousands of cars and trucks sitting in storage lots, ostensibly “waiting for chips”; meanwhile price levels at the factories were jumping every few weeks instead of once or twice a year, by a thousands instead of hundreds. A Ford Transit saw a $6000 hike in less than a year, about the same time as it took from order to delivery. Dealers facing very low supply were left to “manage expectations” of their new car customers, essentially begging forgiveness for higher prices and huge delays, while matching profit per car to loss of volume to keep the light on.\n",
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'The company, which was convicted on all 17 counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes, will be sentenced on Friday. It faces up to $1.6 million in penalties.'What? How can that be? Where's the deterrence for the Trump Organisation and other firms breaking the law?The architect of the scheme was facing years in prison until he agreed to roll over and became the star witness for the prosecution of the Trump Organisation.All this effort for a slap on the wrist. Look at the draconian sentences handed down to a black woman for voting illegally. Look at the excessive prison sentences handed down to the teachers in Atlanta, almost all black women, who elevated their students results.What an unjust and cruel society the USA is. In the end, all that matters is making money. The business of America is truly business.
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"content": "'The company, which was convicted on all 17 counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes, will be sentenced on Friday. It faces up to $1.6 million in penalties.'What? How can that be? Where's the deterrence for the Trump Organisation and other firms breaking the law?The architect of the scheme was facing years in prison until he agreed to roll over and became the star witness for the prosecution of the Trump Organisation.All this effort for a slap on the wrist. Look at the draconian sentences handed down to a black woman for voting illegally. Look at the excessive prison sentences handed down to the teachers in Atlanta, almost all black women, who elevated their students results.What an unjust and cruel society the USA is. In the end, all that matters is making money. The business of America is truly business.\n",
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Yes, we must pay our current bills. We must also wean ourselves off reliance on debt to fund current expenses. Yes, we need to argue the use of funds instead of assuming we have unlimited ability to pay through us of debt. The basic problem is our unwillingness to fully tax on a progressive basis to pay all current expenses. That leads to avoiding difficult discussions on government funding. We have a bloated military budget rife with unnecessary excesses, pork expenditures on international bases and domestic bases for purely political purposes. Let's start here-the foundation of a strong national economy is its people. The cost consequences of desperation and inability to access needs that lead to opportunity are greater than cost of funding a foundational platform with universal healthcare, education, shelter, nutrition, and entry level employment. It pays for itself. Eliminating the cost of desperation plus increased productivity and innovation makes us stronger. Ending unnecessary wars, ending the theory of "we must be blooded" to be relied on as part of our military alignments, creating a simple progressive tax system eliminating cheats & the need for experts whose only job is to frustrate tax collection, removing all restraints on competition in business thus monopoly power aligned with mergers & acquisition rather than innovation for growth & profit. Debt is keeping us from making hard choices.
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"content": "Yes, we must pay our current bills. We must also wean ourselves off reliance on debt to fund current expenses. Yes, we need to argue the use of funds instead of assuming we have unlimited ability to pay through us of debt. The basic problem is our unwillingness to fully tax on a progressive basis to pay all current expenses. That leads to avoiding difficult discussions on government funding. We have a bloated military budget rife with unnecessary excesses, pork expenditures on international bases and domestic bases for purely political purposes. Let's start here-the foundation of a strong national economy is its people. The cost consequences of desperation and inability to access needs that lead to opportunity are greater than cost of funding a foundational platform with universal healthcare, education, shelter, nutrition, and entry level employment. It pays for itself. Eliminating the cost of desperation plus increased productivity and innovation makes us stronger. Ending unnecessary wars, ending the theory of \"we must be blooded\" to be relied on as part of our military alignments, creating a simple progressive tax system eliminating cheats & the need for experts whose only job is to frustrate tax collection, removing all restraints on competition in business thus monopoly power aligned with mergers & acquisition rather than innovation for growth & profit. Debt is keeping us from making hard choices.\n",
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UpperEastSideGuy You're gave it away in your open with "fossil fuels". One needs to read no further.
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"content": "UpperEastSideGuy You're gave it away in your open with \"fossil fuels\". One needs to read no further.\n",
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Celia Bedelia Yea I just moved into a gated community. Nowhere is safe but I spent a lot of money to get away from the ghetto Dallas apartments and riff raff. The homeless where you have to run a red light to get them away from sticking their head in your car, where you need eyes in the back of your head, when useless idiots think all they have to do is approach you "Hey Miss" in a parking lot. I am always on alert. There are so many hapless losers everywhere. I am older and have no empathy or sympathy. Just protecting myself. Meanwhile the City council tries its best to remedy this while do gooders file lawsuits to keep the homeless in the intersections begging. And no I do not own and will never own a gun. I just keep my eyes open 24/7. This Democrat has had enough.
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"content": "Celia Bedelia Yea I just moved into a gated community. Nowhere is safe but I spent a lot of money to get away from the ghetto Dallas apartments and riff raff. The homeless where you have to run a red light to get them away from sticking their head in your car, where you need eyes in the back of your head, when useless idiots think all they have to do is approach you \"Hey Miss\" in a parking lot. I am always on alert. There are so many hapless losers everywhere. I am older and have no empathy or sympathy. Just protecting myself. Meanwhile the City council tries its best to remedy this while do gooders file lawsuits to keep the homeless in the intersections begging. And no I do not own and will never own a gun. I just keep my eyes open 24/7. This Democrat has had enough.\n",
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Americans, and increasingly others throughout the world, have an unwavering fascination and attachment to growth for its sake along; as if it conveys some magical properties to make things better.It's a rather childish notion when you think about it: "endlessly getting bigger", which was okay when humans are 5-6 years old.Innovation, for example, increases the yield of a resource when applied. That's optimization—not maximization. And the distinction makes all the difference.Growth is not always good. It has to be tempered with other qualities to be useful and to serve our needs. As mentioned with innovation, improving things, extending their functions, making them smarter, are forms of growth that don't dictate getting bigger.Americans can look at our consumer-driven (consumer buying makes up 72% of US economy) economy for evidence of growth's negative effects when getting big is the main criterion.Oh yeah, we're getting bigger, especially around the waistline and debts.China, in contrast with the US, is even worse circumstances as the author points out. The real estate sector, the catcher's mitt of greedy tendencies, will crash their markets like nothing else can because of its widespread penetration into all areas of the economy.The US isn't far behind in that regard. Keep watching private equity chasing the rental property markets and how quickly they will ruin consumer housing for everyone.
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"content": "Americans, and increasingly others throughout the world, have an unwavering fascination and attachment to growth for its sake along; as if it conveys some magical properties to make things better.It's a rather childish notion when you think about it: \"endlessly getting bigger\", which was okay when humans are 5-6 years old.Innovation, for example, increases the yield of a resource when applied. That's optimization—not maximization. And the distinction makes all the difference.Growth is not always good. It has to be tempered with other qualities to be useful and to serve our needs. As mentioned with innovation, improving things, extending their functions, making them smarter, are forms of growth that don't dictate getting bigger.Americans can look at our consumer-driven (consumer buying makes up 72% of US economy) economy for evidence of growth's negative effects when getting big is the main criterion.Oh yeah, we're getting bigger, especially around the waistline and debts.China, in contrast with the US, is even worse circumstances as the author points out. The real estate sector, the catcher's mitt of greedy tendencies, will crash their markets like nothing else can because of its widespread penetration into all areas of the economy.The US isn't far behind in that regard. Keep watching private equity chasing the rental property markets and how quickly they will ruin consumer housing for everyone.\n",
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Will there really be upwards of fifty percent (50%) workforce "displacement" in the space of just the next 15 years, with the dawn of artificial intelligence (AI)? That's the estimate. Perhaps a little less, or little slower, if there's huge societal pushback. And the initial losses are principally white collar.Feel free to extend your exploration into such issues as the siting of AI computing facilities (huge energy demands, doubling every 3 months, and its supply type - renewable vs fossil fuel - affecting us all); the generation of targeted, fraudulent audio, video and text online content to influence voting and consumer behaviors; and need for income and health care supports to accompany workforce losses already underway. Yes, we're just getting started.Time to do your homework. Personally, I found the PBS Frontline episode "Age of AI" and recent NYT articles were great places to start studying.
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Biden is America’s Brezhnev, a totem of earlier times. Of course he’ll run in 2024, b/c there is no one else who can unify the party. But it’s crazy to think that he can restore America’s confidence in itself. That’ll require a generational handoff. Lastly, ever since the Clinton administration many Democrats have been invested in this idea that the path to America’s success is for their party to never lose another presidential election. This is also myopic, b/c history shows that the two parties occupy the WH for the same amount of time.
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"content": "Biden is America’s Brezhnev, a totem of earlier times. Of course he’ll run in 2024, b/c there is no one else who can unify the party. But it’s crazy to think that he can restore America’s confidence in itself. That’ll require a generational handoff. Lastly, ever since the Clinton administration many Democrats have been invested in this idea that the path to America’s success is for their party to never lose another presidential election. This is also myopic, b/c history shows that the two parties occupy the WH for the same amount of time.\n",
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ONLY $225,000?!? That's chump change in NYC. Perhaps we will learn of other sums as the case develops.
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"content": "ONLY $225,000?!? That's chump change in NYC. Perhaps we will learn of other sums as the case develops.\n",
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Florida is one of 12 states that has not expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. To score political points, DeSantis is turning down federal money that could save the lives and health of millions ofhis constituents. According to the census, 15% of FL residents have no health insurance, and 13% live in poverty.But he'll toss down nearly $1MM of FL taxpayer money to pay his buddy for a charter flight abducting Texas migrants to a Massachusetts parking lot, as a political stunt.Floridians may love that kind of governor. I don't think the rest of the country will.
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"content": "Florida is one of 12 states that has not expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. To score political points, DeSantis is turning down federal money that could save the lives and health of millions ofhis constituents. According to the census, 15% of FL residents have no health insurance, and 13% live in poverty.But he'll toss down nearly $1MM of FL taxpayer money to pay his buddy for a charter flight abducting Texas migrants to a Massachusetts parking lot, as a political stunt.Floridians may love that kind of governor. I don't think the rest of the country will.\n",
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Wow, we only overspent by $1.4 trillion in one year. Some day, the U.S. will have to pay the piper either by inflating the currency or defaulting on the $31.3 trillion (> 115% of current GDP and rising) national debt. No country has ever escaped horrific economic consequences once debt is over 100% of yearly GDP.
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"content": "Wow, we only overspent by $1.4 trillion in one year. Some day, the U.S. will have to pay the piper either by inflating the currency or defaulting on the $31.3 trillion (> 115% of current GDP and rising) national debt. No country has ever escaped horrific economic consequences once debt is over 100% of yearly GDP.\n",
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I like Harry. He's a young man who has suffered and dared to use his platform to speak openly about his pain in a raw way --all the while challenging one of the world's oldest, most corrupt, wealthy institutions. His privilege clearly did not protect him from sorrow and pain. Maybe his openness will help other young men?With so many disasters (famine, war, etc.) does this story merit the media's obsession? Absolutely not. But the personal attacks against him and the defense of the anachronistic British monarchy is misguided.
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"content": "I like Harry. He's a young man who has suffered and dared to use his platform to speak openly about his pain in a raw way --all the while challenging one of the world's oldest, most corrupt, wealthy institutions. His privilege clearly did not protect him from sorrow and pain. Maybe his openness will help other young men?With so many disasters (famine, war, etc.) does this story merit the media's obsession? Absolutely not. But the personal attacks against him and the defense of the anachronistic British monarchy is misguided.\n",
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I honestly don't see how this is going to be resolved. There's no way Kevin McCarthy can or will step down, not only has it been his central focus for the last decade or so, it would empower the extreme element of his party and remove any actual authority from the speak position. Even if he does step down, nobody else will be able to thread that paper thin 4 vote majority. There's no way that the obstructionists will cave, they're receiving all the media attention they wanted and have staked their reputations on not allowing Kevin McCarthy to take the position. I'm certain that in his mind Matt Gaetz see's this as his route to a POTUS run in 2024, so he and his ilk are never budging.Obviously some kind of bi-partisan agreement would be the logical way to go, but any kind of cooperation with the Democrats would be viewed as heresy by many on the right. From the perspective of the Democrats there might have been enough political will to co-operate with Republican's a few years ago, but there's just been too much betrayal in the last few years for that to happen. The theft of 2 SCOTUS seats, the election denial, and the Jan 6th assault on the capitol were so egregious that any desire to assist them in forming a house that will be focuses on Hunter Biden's laptop and absurd impeachments is just gone.I don't know how this will end.
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"content": "I honestly don't see how this is going to be resolved. There's no way Kevin McCarthy can or will step down, not only has it been his central focus for the last decade or so, it would empower the extreme element of his party and remove any actual authority from the speak position. Even if he does step down, nobody else will be able to thread that paper thin 4 vote majority. There's no way that the obstructionists will cave, they're receiving all the media attention they wanted and have staked their reputations on not allowing Kevin McCarthy to take the position. I'm certain that in his mind Matt Gaetz see's this as his route to a POTUS run in 2024, so he and his ilk are never budging.Obviously some kind of bi-partisan agreement would be the logical way to go, but any kind of cooperation with the Democrats would be viewed as heresy by many on the right. From the perspective of the Democrats there might have been enough political will to co-operate with Republican's a few years ago, but there's just been too much betrayal in the last few years for that to happen. The theft of 2 SCOTUS seats, the election denial, and the Jan 6th assault on the capitol were so egregious that any desire to assist them in forming a house that will be focuses on Hunter Biden's laptop and absurd impeachments is just gone.I don't know how this will end.\n",
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I like Amazon. Great selection online. Mostly good prices. Safe, easy, secure pickup at Whole Foods. Friendly helpful assistance at the pickup counter if needed. Otherwise, just access the pickup locker with the code on your phone. Thirty day refund privilege, no questions asked. If you return merchandise at Kohl’s, you get an additional $5 Kohl’s discount coupon just for using Kohl’s. So, you actually make $5 for returning unwanted merchandise. Win Win.
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Hey made 4x that amount hawking NFT’s. 10x avoiding taxes. In summation: who cares?
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"content": "Hey made 4x that amount hawking NFT’s. 10x avoiding taxes. In summation: who cares?\n",
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If you ran a company and had a job opening and a candidate appeared who in the first interview told you that:They hate your industry, dislike your customers, do not believe in your products, think your company should not exist, and if they get the job the first thing they will do is work to shut down your operation, all the while happily collecting a large paycheck, would you hire them?No?Well that is what you get when you elect a republican.
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Mount Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis made $5.6 million in 2019, the last year for which complete tax records are available. Montefiore CEO Philip Ozuah made $7.4 million in 2020. In filings with the IRS, Mount Sinai disclosed that 15 executives made more than $1 million annually in 2019. Montefiore disclosed ten executives in 2020, all making more than $1.5 million.At the end of September 2022, Montefiore was sitting on $1.3 billion in cash and investments, while Mount Sinai had $2.6 billion at the end of 2020.(Source: The Lever)And yet, these two incredibly rich organizations somehow refuse to properly staff the hospitals or pay the nurses who largely run the hospitals a decent wage.But I guess that's how these quasi-corporations got so much cash and executive pay in the first place....by stiffing average workers and systematically understaffing the hospitals.Welcome to the United States of Unfettered Greed.It's not a great country.
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"content": "Mount Sinai CEO Kenneth Davis made $5.6 million in 2019, the last year for which complete tax records are available. Montefiore CEO Philip Ozuah made $7.4 million in 2020. In filings with the IRS, Mount Sinai disclosed that 15 executives made more than $1 million annually in 2019. Montefiore disclosed ten executives in 2020, all making more than $1.5 million.At the end of September 2022, Montefiore was sitting on $1.3 billion in cash and investments, while Mount Sinai had $2.6 billion at the end of 2020.(Source: The Lever)And yet, these two incredibly rich organizations somehow refuse to properly staff the hospitals or pay the nurses who largely run the hospitals a decent wage.But I guess that's how these quasi-corporations got so much cash and executive pay in the first place....by stiffing average workers and systematically understaffing the hospitals.Welcome to the United States of Unfettered Greed.It's not a great country.\n",
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V. Sloan Absolutely agree! My first apartment in Boston (mid 70's) was $150/month... Same apartment now rents for $2500. (and the neighborhood has not changed significantly). Cost of living/inflation increase should mean that apartment would be ~$780 in today's dollars. Subway one-way was $0.25, should be ~$1.50 in today's dollars but a round trip recently cost me $2.40 EACH way. Looking at entry level salaries for many professions, they have NOT increased in the same way. Our kids and our kids' kids are not in the same economic world.
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"content": "V. Sloan Absolutely agree! My first apartment in Boston (mid 70's) was $150/month... Same apartment now rents for $2500. (and the neighborhood has not changed significantly). Cost of living/inflation increase should mean that apartment would be ~$780 in today's dollars. Subway one-way was $0.25, should be ~$1.50 in today's dollars but a round trip recently cost me $2.40 EACH way. Looking at entry level salaries for many professions, they have NOT increased in the same way. Our kids and our kids' kids are not in the same economic world.\n",
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I understand it is very difficult to meet people, especially if love is the hoped for result. I would still prefer to spend those "thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands" on doing things I enjoy, during which I might bump into folks that enjoy the same and something further develops.And if it doesn't, instead of spending a few grand on a dating service, I can spend it on a trip with an encounter or two that might not lead to marriage, but certainly is a welcome jaunt.
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Wow, $200 billion! I bet that is close to the amount of money we will ultimately giving the Ukraine (or rather, the gang in charge of Ukraine) Now I KNOW we are serious about Chip making!
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"content": "Wow, $200 billion! I bet that is close to the amount of money we will ultimately giving the Ukraine (or rather, the gang in charge of Ukraine) Now I KNOW we are serious about Chip making!\n",
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Missing from this article is any explanation of what the US has been doing - were we part of that request for $3.6 billion to not drill? Also missing is what sort of corruption may have been going on in Ecuador: in 2011 an Ecuadorian court announced an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for failing to clean up after itself and causing illness & deaths to indigenous people. A US federal court later invalidated that judgment as the "product of fraud and racketeering." There have been ongoing debates about the actions of Chevron, the Ecuadorian courts, and our own judicial system, indicating there is a great deal more to this story of Ecuadorian oil than the tiny glimpse we see in this article. That being said, there does appear to be at least the appearance of corruption in Ecuadorian government: "Mr. Correa now lives in Belgium and faces arrest in Ecuador because of a corruption conviction." So, either the courts or Mr. Correa are hopelessly corrupt. It's a lot like Bolsonaro's green light to ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: poor nations need income, and the way to earn that income is by ravaging what's left of these rainforests. So what does the world do in cases like this? It's clear that there are no easy answers - but refusing to attempt to answer these complex questions is certainly not the best way forward. We must address these questions soon or we can only continue to watch as the world burns.
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"content": "Missing from this article is any explanation of what the US has been doing - were we part of that request for $3.6 billion to not drill? Also missing is what sort of corruption may have been going on in Ecuador: in 2011 an Ecuadorian court announced an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for failing to clean up after itself and causing illness & deaths to indigenous people. A US federal court later invalidated that judgment as the \"product of fraud and racketeering.\" There have been ongoing debates about the actions of Chevron, the Ecuadorian courts, and our own judicial system, indicating there is a great deal more to this story of Ecuadorian oil than the tiny glimpse we see in this article. That being said, there does appear to be at least the appearance of corruption in Ecuadorian government: \"Mr. Correa now lives in Belgium and faces arrest in Ecuador because of a corruption conviction.\" So, either the courts or Mr. Correa are hopelessly corrupt. It's a lot like Bolsonaro's green light to ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: poor nations need income, and the way to earn that income is by ravaging what's left of these rainforests. So what does the world do in cases like this? It's clear that there are no easy answers - but refusing to attempt to answer these complex questions is certainly not the best way forward. We must address these questions soon or we can only continue to watch as the world burns.\n",
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We were warned about droughts long ago, and we are still ignoring what the science tells us that we have to do.The following is from a 1981 paper by James Hansen that at the time hit the front page of the NY Times, all the predictions in it have either come to pass or are well underway. "Potential effects on climate in the 21st century include the creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia as part of a shifting of climatic zones, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.”<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html</a>From a 2012 paper, see the graph of western North America precipitation from 1900-2100 on p 555 of the paper, it makes the recent western drought look like a rainforest by comparison with what is projected to come.<a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=usdaarsfacpub" target="_blank">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=usdaarsfacpub</a>
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Grapes - can't eat them all?I buy California red seedless grapes (2.50 a lb. at Kroger; $3 up the street; 99 cents on sale) and I'm surprised when they make it home . .. seriously, folks, between snacking, a substitute for apples with peanut butter or cooked with oatmeal, they never last more than two days. It's all about mindful vs. mindless buying. Grab a stem from a bigger multi-pound bag, put it in a plastic bag (or bring your own), and punch in the name or code when you check-out. (Or ask the human cashier to please do so)
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"content": "Grapes - can't eat them all?I buy California red seedless grapes (2.50 a lb. at Kroger; $3 up the street; 99 cents on sale) and I'm surprised when they make it home . .. seriously, folks, between snacking, a substitute for apples with peanut butter or cooked with oatmeal, they never last more than two days. It's all about mindful vs. mindless buying. Grab a stem from a bigger multi-pound bag, put it in a plastic bag (or bring your own), and punch in the name or code when you check-out. (Or ask the human cashier to please do so)\n",
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Dale, it took me six years and was worth it. Having moved to Detroit myself after college for my first job I rented in Palmer Park at Six Mile Road inside Detroit for three years, then rented in the suburb of Royal Oak at Ten Mile Road. After six years I'd saved the $7,000 needed for a 10% downpayment on a $65K brick 2-family in the suburb of Ferndale, at Nine Mile Road. I rented out the bigger half downstairs which covered 75% of my mortgage. Then kept saving. Two years later I got a job in NYC, kept both units in my Ferndale house rented out and rented in NYC for another three years saving every penny til I could buy a ruined 2bedroom apartment at W72 and Central Park West, a fantastic location in Manhattan. Then saved for another 15 years, sold Detroit and Manhattan to buy an 1881 townhouse here in Brooklyn where we live now and rent out the bottom floor.I was willing to move to Detroit, a city I'd never planned to go, had the discipline to save for what I needed, then waited YEARS for the housing prices to slowly rise and used that leverage to help me keep moving forward. As the NYT list of cities shows, there are plenty of opportunities out there to buy your first home. You just have to decide whether you're willing to move to a place where you can afford to buy. Even into the least desirable part of your current city. If you're not, then you will be renting for the rest of your life. You gotta start somewhere.
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"content": "Dale, it took me six years and was worth it. Having moved to Detroit myself after college for my first job I rented in Palmer Park at Six Mile Road inside Detroit for three years, then rented in the suburb of Royal Oak at Ten Mile Road. After six years I'd saved the $7,000 needed for a 10% downpayment on a $65K brick 2-family in the suburb of Ferndale, at Nine Mile Road. I rented out the bigger half downstairs which covered 75% of my mortgage. Then kept saving. Two years later I got a job in NYC, kept both units in my Ferndale house rented out and rented in NYC for another three years saving every penny til I could buy a ruined 2bedroom apartment at W72 and Central Park West, a fantastic location in Manhattan. Then saved for another 15 years, sold Detroit and Manhattan to buy an 1881 townhouse here in Brooklyn where we live now and rent out the bottom floor.I was willing to move to Detroit, a city I'd never planned to go, had the discipline to save for what I needed, then waited YEARS for the housing prices to slowly rise and used that leverage to help me keep moving forward. As the NYT list of cities shows, there are plenty of opportunities out there to buy your first home. You just have to decide whether you're willing to move to a place where you can afford to buy. Even into the least desirable part of your current city. If you're not, then you will be renting for the rest of your life. You gotta start somewhere.\n",
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Bill Brasky During the first Palestinian uprising (1989) before suicide bombs or rockets from Gaza existed in Israel and when over a thousand youths were killed by the IDF, an American-Palestinian (Mubarak Awad) opened the “Centre for Non-violent Civil Disobedience” in Jerusalem. He was promptly deported.A few years earlier (1982) Israel used the pretext of an attempted assassination of one of its European ambassadors by a breakaway PLO group to invade Lebanon and “crush PLO terror.” (17,000 mostly Lebanese civilians perished).In reality, the PLO had been observing a US-brokered ceasefire for the 11 previous months. More importantly, it had for the first time been publicly debating a two-state solution, thus rapidly gaining international acceptance with even the Vatican hosting Arafat. It was this, that then-prime minister Menachem Begin (a wanted terrorist during the British Mandate) found intolerable.Israel has always feared Palestinian diplomacy far more than its violence.
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"content": "Bill Brasky During the first Palestinian uprising (1989) before suicide bombs or rockets from Gaza existed in Israel and when over a thousand youths were killed by the IDF, an American-Palestinian (Mubarak Awad) opened the “Centre for Non-violent Civil Disobedience” in Jerusalem. He was promptly deported.A few years earlier (1982) Israel used the pretext of an attempted assassination of one of its European ambassadors by a breakaway PLO group to invade Lebanon and “crush PLO terror.” (17,000 mostly Lebanese civilians perished).In reality, the PLO had been observing a US-brokered ceasefire for the 11 previous months. More importantly, it had for the first time been publicly debating a two-state solution, thus rapidly gaining international acceptance with even the Vatican hosting Arafat. It was this, that then-prime minister Menachem Begin (a wanted terrorist during the British Mandate) found intolerable.Israel has always feared Palestinian diplomacy far more than its violence.\n",
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Here is my theory of inflation1 doz jumbo eggs at Trader Joe's in FLDec 2020 $2Jun 2021 $2.5Dec 2021 $3.50June 2022 $4Dec 1st 2022 $4.5Jan 3rd 2023 $5CPI that
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"... the Red Hill oil leakages ..."Red Hill is scheduled to be closed. See this statement at the defense.gov web site:"Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility"March 7, 2022And the EPA has extensive documentation on Red Hill. A web search for "Red Hill EPA" will find more.As for the cost of the dolphin program, the article says the "overall required budget [is] $40 million this year."That is miniscule compared to the $715 billion DOD budget, which is published online.See "FY 2022 Defense Budget" at the defense.gov web site.
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"content": "\"... the Red Hill oil leakages ...\"Red Hill is scheduled to be closed. See this statement at the defense.gov web site:\"Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility\"March 7, 2022And the EPA has extensive documentation on Red Hill. A web search for \"Red Hill EPA\" will find more.As for the cost of the dolphin program, the article says the \"overall required budget [is] $40 million this year.\"That is miniscule compared to the $715 billion DOD budget, which is published online.See \"FY 2022 Defense Budget\" at the defense.gov web site.\n",
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Perfect, expected. The Repub's refuse to/just can't turn the corner away from trump/trumpism, despite the somewhat clear signals their midterm failings/embarrassments indicated. Rather than being a rudderless ship, it appears they're prepared to speed directly, apologetically toward the falls, throttle wide open."Hey, it's broke and, we don't care(or have the integrity or courage) to fix it"!What could possibly go wrong?
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Agreed. Just about everything Trump does is transactional and viewed through a lens to see how he can profit. If all the documents at Mar-a-Lago were securely stored in a locked storage room, that would be one thing. The fact that many were found in his office - the place I expect he does much of his business - and some even in his desk drawer suggests to me that he was using them in the course of business. That a bunch of empty folders were found there should be concerning to anyone. Only the most rabid Trump supporters would believe these were taken from the White House as souvenirs. In light of this, you have got to ask yourself what did MBS get in order to funnel $2B to Jared Kushner against all his advisor’s’ recommendations?
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"content": "Agreed. Just about everything Trump does is transactional and viewed through a lens to see how he can profit. If all the documents at Mar-a-Lago were securely stored in a locked storage room, that would be one thing. The fact that many were found in his office - the place I expect he does much of his business - and some even in his desk drawer suggests to me that he was using them in the course of business. That a bunch of empty folders were found there should be concerning to anyone. Only the most rabid Trump supporters would believe these were taken from the White House as souvenirs. In light of this, you have got to ask yourself what did MBS get in order to funnel $2B to Jared Kushner against all his advisor’s’ recommendations?\n",
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I spent a few weeks in France recently. I felt incredibly free to do as I pleased within the laws, and never had to worry about being gunned down in the local supermarket. The kids there don't need to go through metal detectors on their way into school and are trusted to leave, get lunch on their own through open doors, and return for more learning. They are not locked in, and their teachers don't need weapons.So which country is more free? The US with all its guns, or France?Freedom isn't free. It costs your guns, apparently.
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If the CCP had more female leadership, then maybe it wouldn't be quite so crazy; and draconian over-reaches like the "One Child Policy" or "Zero Covid" or "Zero Free Speech" would never have eventuated... (or at least would have been attenuated in their worst and most dystopian aspects).The only major political party in the world that has never had any real female leaders; if the CCP isn't a "toxic masculinity" Boys' Club, I don't know what is...!Needless to say -- especially in light of their unqualified support for Putin's genocidal aggression in Ukraine -- now is the time we should stop investing with this totalitarian dictatorship, effective immediately. Let them sink or swim on their own steam.Let's see how great they really are without the help of Democracies... (which the CCP does nothing but badmouth and threaten).What was 'Corporate America' ever even thinking; empowering a violent, threatening, revanchist one-party-system Cult of Personality?! How nuts was that!I fear our disloyal CEOs' post-WTO enabling of China will go down as one of the greatest mistakes of the century. Even last week, at Davos, most of them still appeared to be in COMPLETE denial about the monster they've created by empowering Beijing....Let's decouple now, folks, and not wait till there's a war over Taiwan. This is getting crazy....Kicking this can down the road indefinitely only makes the potential problem greater.Decouple, now.
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Mr. SeaMonkey Maybe more about what I've heard were the dark times before the plane's success was so assured. I've heard that the investment at one point exceeded the value of the company. And was there actually a billboard with "Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights."? The city and Boeing have had quite a marriage. Like General Dynamics with St. Louis.
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"content": "Mr. SeaMonkey Maybe more about what I've heard were the dark times before the plane's success was so assured. I've heard that the investment at one point exceeded the value of the company. And was there actually a billboard with \"Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.\"? The city and Boeing have had quite a marriage. Like General Dynamics with St. Louis.\n",
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In 1970 at age 18, I may have seen Iggy working at Discount Records in Ann Arbor, but I would not have known anything about him yet. There were a few wild rockers around town. One performance I saw could have been him.Nearby soul city Detroit was a gritty industrial town rolling out tons of new cars. I came from the town that made the tires. A late close friend of mine (John P........) in Columbus operated a radical antiwar group connected to MC5/John Sinclair who was media-hyped and fueled a lot of dissent through local underground rags. In these roughshod nexus points, culture was a fabric.About 1984, Iggy opened for The Pretenders in Denver. The famous hometown rocker who had several nexus points with my neighborhood childhood in Akron, was in her usual tough-girl character when she opened her performance by snidely saying approximately "I kiss the stage where Iggy walked" and then getting on her knees to do it. A local music reporter pointed out that Iggy had spit all over the stage and maybe she shouldn't have done that. Nexus point of the week: She had once worked for Vivienne Westwood in London before the affiliated Sex Pistols had killed anyone.In a visit to France years ago, I was surprised that a cousin wanted some of my Iggy shots from a 1995 show.Iggy was the unpretentious epitome of raw punk rock. Hope he donates his cadaver to science upon expiration. His grave would be easy to find, the one where the ground thumps like an earthquake. God bless Iggy!
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"content": "In 1970 at age 18, I may have seen Iggy working at Discount Records in Ann Arbor, but I would not have known anything about him yet. There were a few wild rockers around town. One performance I saw could have been him.Nearby soul city Detroit was a gritty industrial town rolling out tons of new cars. I came from the town that made the tires. A late close friend of mine (John P........) in Columbus operated a radical antiwar group connected to MC5/John Sinclair who was media-hyped and fueled a lot of dissent through local underground rags. In these roughshod nexus points, culture was a fabric.About 1984, Iggy opened for The Pretenders in Denver. The famous hometown rocker who had several nexus points with my neighborhood childhood in Akron, was in her usual tough-girl character when she opened her performance by snidely saying approximately \"I kiss the stage where Iggy walked\" and then getting on her knees to do it. A local music reporter pointed out that Iggy had spit all over the stage and maybe she shouldn't have done that. Nexus point of the week: She had once worked for Vivienne Westwood in London before the affiliated Sex Pistols had killed anyone.In a visit to France years ago, I was surprised that a cousin wanted some of my Iggy shots from a 1995 show.Iggy was the unpretentious epitome of raw punk rock. Hope he donates his cadaver to science upon expiration. His grave would be easy to find, the one where the ground thumps like an earthquake. God bless Iggy!\n",
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After the huge blowback from commenters after the initial article with the headline screaming “demographic crisis,” NYT is doubling down on its crusade to convince us all that a (minor) population contraction in China is a bad thing, with three more pieces (no, wait, four). This following a string of pronatalist articles/essays over the past few years – and nary a single one even suggesting that many of the massive environmental and social problems we face today just might have been caused or at least exacerbated by the explosive growth of the human population during the past century. I seriously wonder what the editors (or whoever is responsible) are thinking -- especially when the same paper regularly publishes articles on climate change and, lately, has featured a few on the steep decline of biodiversity. How can they not recognize that the expanding human population is crowding out most other forms of life?For those who say that we are missing the point of these articles about the socioeconomic problems that will result from a population contraction in China (or wherever): no, we get that. You are missing the point we are trying to make: that without a healthy web of life to support us, the entire economic system will collapse.And that aside, surely other species deserve space to live and thrive for their own sake.
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The key is funding research and development at US universities like Purdue (leader in SiC) and New Mexico (leader in FinFET, nanowire). The R&D will lead to patented technology. Make it easy for universities to license their technology domestically and easily enforce against infringer. Let universities enforce their patents locally and make injunctions against infringers mandatory. Royalties can be plowed back into funding basic research.Award tuition, fees, undergraduate debt forgiveness, and living wage stipends to all graduate students in approved graduate programs in areas of need (EE, Physics, Chem. Eng.). Free college and graduate school should be limited to degrees in areas of national strategic need.The cost of a trained semiconductor EE in the US is about $125k to $175k. In Taiwan, it's $45k. Ireland is $75k. That gap means to keep domestic industry from fleeing to low wage sites, tarrifs may be required. The cost to manufacture in the US must be lowered compared to places like S. Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and India. That requires a long-term, multi-faceted approach beyond giving money away to chip makers. Educational System ChangesInfrastructure SupportTax Policy ChangesPatent Reform to Strengthen US Patents (after years of Big Tech attacks)Immigration Policy ChangesIt requires leadership. It requires intelligence. It may require too much for the US to provide in a time where social media chooses our leaders.
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Curious Marc Benioff, a native San Franciscan and self made man who was not born to any wealth, has given tens of millions of dollars to the city's programs to address homelessness and mental health. These problems are not unique to SF although many who do not live here like to point fingers at SF. Actually some inroads- not enough of course- have been made and SF is still the most beautiful place to live and vibrant
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First time I went to Wo-Hop was in 1964; a group of science fiction fans who met weekly at an apartment in Sunset Park Brooklyn would ride the R train there after the meetings, and eat a meal at 3am, after standing on line waiting our turn.Nowadays, I really shouldn't eat that sort of food, and riding the subway at night is something I'd never do. But of course, Wo-Hop doesn't stay open all night any more, either.And I too stop to stare at the wonderful architecture around the city. Unlike so many who walk absorbed by their phones, I like to take in the sights and sounds around me.As always, MD is much more than the brief stories; it's the comments, a community on its own.
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"content": "First time I went to Wo-Hop was in 1964; a group of science fiction fans who met weekly at an apartment in Sunset Park Brooklyn would ride the R train there after the meetings, and eat a meal at 3am, after standing on line waiting our turn.Nowadays, I really shouldn't eat that sort of food, and riding the subway at night is something I'd never do. But of course, Wo-Hop doesn't stay open all night any more, either.And I too stop to stare at the wonderful architecture around the city. Unlike so many who walk absorbed by their phones, I like to take in the sights and sounds around me.As always, MD is much more than the brief stories; it's the comments, a community on its own.\n",
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Thank you for this article. I agree completely. For all the $$$ we pour into education (in Ontario, Canada at least), we are not seeing the gains. It's complicated I guess.
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"content": "Thank you for this article. I agree completely. For all the $$$ we pour into education (in Ontario, Canada at least), we are not seeing the gains. It's complicated I guess.\n",
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My father George Brimmell was the Telegram reporter who broke the story, complete with the 78 bathrooms bit and came up with the Diefenbunker moniker. The PM -- 'Dief the Chief'-- as Canadians knew him, was none too pleased of course and went out of his way to try to get my Dad fired, but the Telly was having none of that. When it opened to the public in the late 90s, Dad was invited to speak at the opening ceremonies, which was a big thrill for our family. Dad passed on just over a year ago, but I know he's having a good chuckle seeing the NYT running with the story in 2023!
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"content": "My father George Brimmell was the Telegram reporter who broke the story, complete with the 78 bathrooms bit and came up with the Diefenbunker moniker. The PM -- 'Dief the Chief'-- as Canadians knew him, was none too pleased of course and went out of his way to try to get my Dad fired, but the Telly was having none of that. When it opened to the public in the late 90s, Dad was invited to speak at the opening ceremonies, which was a big thrill for our family. Dad passed on just over a year ago, but I know he's having a good chuckle seeing the NYT running with the story in 2023!\n",
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Some of the radicals in the House are also Putin’s puppets. I guarantee you that some of the dark money that props them up has origins in Moscow. Putin is gleeful at the prospect that these anti-American members of Congress might hold up the money Ukraine (and by extension Europe) desperately needs to defend its sovereignty and that is vital to global stability.
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"content": "Some of the radicals in the House are also Putin’s puppets. I guarantee you that some of the dark money that props them up has origins in Moscow. Putin is gleeful at the prospect that these anti-American members of Congress might hold up the money Ukraine (and by extension Europe) desperately needs to defend its sovereignty and that is vital to global stability.\n",
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Albert Jackson - Blame the US government for spending almost a year on $1 trillion military budget and billions in foreign aids when many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
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"content": "Albert Jackson - Blame the US government for spending almost a year on $1 trillion military budget and billions in foreign aids when many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.\n",
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Shouldn't it be possible for 'blue' states to form a consortium and implement their own form of universal, single-payer healthcare/insurance, transcending state borders within the consortium? The combined populations of California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts exceed that of many nations which have been able to establish such systems of health care. It's past time for the states in the US which have stepped into the twenty-first century to stop allowing themselves to be held back by the retrograde politics of Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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"content": "Shouldn't it be possible for 'blue' states to form a consortium and implement their own form of universal, single-payer healthcare/insurance, transcending state borders within the consortium? The combined populations of California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts exceed that of many nations which have been able to establish such systems of health care. It's past time for the states in the US which have stepped into the twenty-first century to stop allowing themselves to be held back by the retrograde politics of Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi.\n",
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The LP’s enable it by investing in the funds. Think state pension funds (public employees - teachers, police, etc), university endowments, ultra high net worth families. Follow the money. Frankly, without private equity returns state pensions would be more bankrupt than they already are.
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"content": "The LP’s enable it by investing in the funds. Think state pension funds (public employees - teachers, police, etc), university endowments, ultra high net worth families. Follow the money. Frankly, without private equity returns state pensions would be more bankrupt than they already are.\n",
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Socrates Hang in there? I went to Istanbul in 1999 to teach English. The US dollar = 440,000 Turkish lira. I had a small class of really nice seniors ready to graduate. A reading passage brought up savings and the "magic of compound interest." I went on a positive "mini-lecture" on saving money. I was surprised at their laughter as they dismissed my premises. I hadn't realized, new to the country, what they had gone through. 30% of my salary was paid in local cash and the rest sent to my U.S. bank. We would get our pay in cash and put it into dollars right away and then cash them back into lira as we needed it for pocket money. I hung in there. My last paycheck four years later gave me 1.3 billion lira (!) in cash, in newly-minted 20 million lira notes. Lesson? Reality trumps (no pun) rosy intellectual idealism.
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"content": "Socrates Hang in there? I went to Istanbul in 1999 to teach English. The US dollar = 440,000 Turkish lira. I had a small class of really nice seniors ready to graduate. A reading passage brought up savings and the \"magic of compound interest.\" I went on a positive \"mini-lecture\" on saving money. I was surprised at their laughter as they dismissed my premises. I hadn't realized, new to the country, what they had gone through. 30% of my salary was paid in local cash and the rest sent to my U.S. bank. We would get our pay in cash and put it into dollars right away and then cash them back into lira as we needed it for pocket money. I hung in there. My last paycheck four years later gave me 1.3 billion lira (!) in cash, in newly-minted 20 million lira notes. Lesson? Reality trumps (no pun) rosy intellectual idealism.\n",
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There are only so many schools with limited openings for admission. One cannot just add seats or open nursing schools. There is also a shortage of nurse educators/teachers.
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"content": "There are only so many schools with limited openings for admission. One cannot just add seats or open nursing schools. There is also a shortage of nurse educators/teachers.\n",
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We, in the US and all other developed countries, get food in very cheap and that sector is controlled by big commodity traders in a significant way that whatever price we pay in retail stores hardly reach the farmers. Too much consolidation of each and every aspect of our food system is now consolidated to few big corporations. That makes farming less than viable as a profession even though its very demanding and also a critical aspect of national security. More than 50% American farm household's annual income is less than $10,000- much below poverty line.Importing cheap and heavily exploited workers makes the situation for local farmers more pathetic. It also makes farming rife for foreign powers (including hostile ones) and venture (read, vulture) investors. If managed carefully and putting proper policies in place, this vital sector can generate so many viable jobs in tis era of growing automation and rise of poverty all over the world, mainly after pandemic.
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"content": "We, in the US and all other developed countries, get food in very cheap and that sector is controlled by big commodity traders in a significant way that whatever price we pay in retail stores hardly reach the farmers. Too much consolidation of each and every aspect of our food system is now consolidated to few big corporations. That makes farming less than viable as a profession even though its very demanding and also a critical aspect of national security. More than 50% American farm household's annual income is less than $10,000- much below poverty line.Importing cheap and heavily exploited workers makes the situation for local farmers more pathetic. It also makes farming rife for foreign powers (including hostile ones) and venture (read, vulture) investors. If managed carefully and putting proper policies in place, this vital sector can generate so many viable jobs in tis era of growing automation and rise of poverty all over the world, mainly after pandemic.\n",
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Private Equity's game is simple and has not changed since they began their acquisition game.Essentially, it's all about cutting costs to the max, charging more for same services or reduced services and then loading up the company with debt while the Private Equity company enriches themselves.Once the company is no longer viable, they just sell it off along with its debt or simply let it die. Either way, at this point, it is irrelevant as the Private Equity firm has already reaped X times the profit from their initial investment.This is very similar to something known as cellar boxing viable companies listed on the stock market. Drive a company into the ground, then pretend to come to its rescue by loading it up with debt, and run off with the cash like a bank robber. Short Hedge Funds, with help from Private Equity companies, have been and continue doing this to many a good company.Isn't America great? So many lives ruined due to almighty greed.
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"content": "Private Equity's game is simple and has not changed since they began their acquisition game.Essentially, it's all about cutting costs to the max, charging more for same services or reduced services and then loading up the company with debt while the Private Equity company enriches themselves.Once the company is no longer viable, they just sell it off along with its debt or simply let it die. Either way, at this point, it is irrelevant as the Private Equity firm has already reaped X times the profit from their initial investment.This is very similar to something known as cellar boxing viable companies listed on the stock market. Drive a company into the ground, then pretend to come to its rescue by loading it up with debt, and run off with the cash like a bank robber. Short Hedge Funds, with help from Private Equity companies, have been and continue doing this to many a good company.Isn't America great? So many lives ruined due to almighty greed.\n",
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Fantastic proposal. Do it. I once worked for a very very large US bank, and I was subject to a non compete agreement that basically disallowed me to work for any large commercial or investment bank --ANY--unless I was willing to forfeit my pension and all my deferred compensation. Talk about a one sided deal because the bank could fire me at will but I really couldn't leave at my will unless I changed my entire career after 25 years, or was willing to go to work for a community or small regional bank. There is no reason if you support free market capitalism to allow any employer to indenture you through a non compete agreement.
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"content": "Fantastic proposal. Do it. I once worked for a very very large US bank, and I was subject to a non compete agreement that basically disallowed me to work for any large commercial or investment bank --ANY--unless I was willing to forfeit my pension and all my deferred compensation. Talk about a one sided deal because the bank could fire me at will but I really couldn't leave at my will unless I changed my entire career after 25 years, or was willing to go to work for a community or small regional bank. There is no reason if you support free market capitalism to allow any employer to indenture you through a non compete agreement.\n",
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NG Does government debt crowd out private investment? It could in principle, but low interest rates are a sign that private demand for funds is low — and the recent rise in rates looks like a temporary bump as the Fed fights inflation. The truth is that our biggest fiscal problem since 2008 hasn't been voters complacent about debt, but political elites obsessed with debt at the expense of other long-term issues like infrastructure and child care.
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"content": "NG Does government debt crowd out private investment? It could in principle, but low interest rates are a sign that private demand for funds is low — and the recent rise in rates looks like a temporary bump as the Fed fights inflation. The truth is that our biggest fiscal problem since 2008 hasn't been voters complacent about debt, but political elites obsessed with debt at the expense of other long-term issues like infrastructure and child care.\n",
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